- July 29, 2025
SCIENCE

Solar-powered ambush drones can wait for targets like land mines
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . July 29, 2025
A Russian ambush drone with solar panels seen in Ukraine Serhii Beskrestnov Small racing quadcopters carrying explosives, known as first-person-view drones or FPVs, have become

Solar drone with wingspan wider than jumbo jet could fly for months
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . July 26, 2025
The Skydweller drone Skydweller A solar-powered surveillance drone with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet could fly for weeks or months at

AI beats goalkeepers at predicting which way penalty taker will shoot
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . July 23, 2025
Goalkeepers struggle to guess which way a penalty taker will shoot JAVIER SORIANO/AFP via Getty Images Deep learning models trained on more than 1000 penalty

Your chance of having a boy or girl may not be 50/50
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . July 20, 2025
A woman’s age may determine whether she has only sons or daughters Marko Pekic/Getty Images You may assume that a woman’s chance of having a

Neanderthal groups had their own local food culture
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . July 17, 2025
An illustration of a Neanderthal group preparing food LUIS MONTANYA/MARTA MONTANYA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Neanderthals may have had traditional ways of preparing food that were particular

Most warming this century may be due to air pollution cuts
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . July 14, 2025
Sulphate pollution, which has a cooling effect, can come from coal power plants Frank Herrmann/Getty Images Clouds have been getting darker and reflecting less sunlight

Artificial cooling ‘urgent’ for Great Barrier Reef after warming spike
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . July 11, 2025
Coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland, Australia Nature Picture Library/Alamy Strategies to artificially shade Australia’s Great Barrier Reef from rising temperatures are

Forests’ vanishing snow is also bad news for carbon storage
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . July 8, 2025
Forests like Mount Mansfield State Forest in Vermont are losing their snowpacks Douglas Rissing/Getty Images Many forests are losing their winter snowpack as global temperatures

Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a super-greenhouse
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . July 5, 2025
Global warming is causing forest die-offs today, just as it did during the Permian-Triassic extinction event INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images After a sharp rise

Stunning image of a supernova reveals a dead star that exploded twice
- By KentuckyDigitalNews.com
- . July 2, 2025
Two concentric rings appear around the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5, indicating that it exploded twice ESO/P. Das et al. Background stars (Hubble): K. Noll et